Star Wars: Jedi Arena

Star Wars: Jedi Arena
Star Wars: Jedi Arena
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Developer(s)	Parker Brothers
Publisher(s)	Parker Brothers
Programmer(s)	Rex Bradford
Platform(s)	Atari 2600
Release	January 1983
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Star Wars: Jedi Arena is a lightsaber battle video game written by Rex Bradford for the Atari 2600 and published by Parker Brothers in 1983. It is the first Star Wars video game to feature lightsabers.^[2] The goal of the game, based on one scene in the original Star Wars film, is to take out the opponent with the Seeker ball while defending oneself from incoming laser blasts using one's lightsaber.

Following the adequate sales of their first Star Wars game, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Parker Brothers went on to continue developing Star Wars titles, one of which is Star Wars: Jedi Arena, programmed by Rex Bradford. Although the game's reception was mixed at the time of release, with sound effects being praised and primarily the abstract combat being criticized, its legacy is largely negative, with several modern critics referring to the game as one of the worst Star Wars games of all time.

^ Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009). Racing the Beam. MIT Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7.
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[1] Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009). Racing the Beam. MIT Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7.

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